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New York’s Ongoing Blackout: Hospitals in Lower Manhattan
by Charles Ornstein Long after power is restored from Sandy, the effect of another more-precarious outage is still taking shape: Some of the largest hospitals in lower Manhattan remain shuttered....
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Check ‘Em Out: Donations to Dark Money Group Revealed
by Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Emma Schwartz, Frontline Last week, when a Montana district judge ordered the release of its bank records, Western Tradition Partnership became the first modern dark...
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How Much Did Independent Groups Spend Per Vote?
by Al ShawAlthough an unprecedented amount was spent by outside groups in an effort to influence the 2012 campaign, the candidates with the most super PAC funding were defeated Tuesday. Here’s a look...
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Exec Who Allegedly Enabled Fraud Runs Chase’s Effort to Compensate...
by Paul Kiel An executive who the Justice Department says facilitated a scheme to defraud Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now spearheading JPMorgan Chase's role in the government's program to compensate...
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Yes, Companies Are Harvesting – and Selling – Your Facebook Profile
by Lois BeckettYesterday, we got a rare look at how information on your public social media profiles—including Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn—is being harvested and resold by large consumer data...
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In California, Democrats’ Redistricting Strategy Paid Off
by Olga PierceLast year we wrote about how Democrats used front groups, disingenuous testimony, and other aggressive tactics to manipulate California’s independent redistricting commission. The effort...
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Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq,...
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Buyer of Wild Horses Under Investigation by State, Feds
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublicaThis story was co-published with the Colorado Springs Gazette. A southern Colorado man under investigation for his handling of protected wild horses has admitted...
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A Son Lost in Iraq, but Where Is the Casualty Report?
by Peter Sleeth, Special to ProPublica WELLSVILLE, Kan. — The day after Jim Butler learned his son had died in Iraq in 2003, a U.S. Army casualty officer showed up at the family's small ranch to...
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Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq,...
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Outside Groups Dominated Las Vegas Airwaves in 2012 Campaign
by Theodoric MeyerDark money groups that don’t have to disclose their donors spent hundreds of millions in this election cycle. And now we’ve got a better idea of the extent of their spending in one...
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Everything We Know (So Far) About Obama’s Big Data Tactics
by Lois BeckettFor the past nine months, we’ve been following how political campaigns use data about voters to target them in different ways. During the election, the Obama campaign, which had...
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Mapping Segregation in Westchester
by Nikole Hannah-JonesIt is one of the most common arguments used to justify federal inaction in pushing communities that get government housing dollars to become more racially diverse: Class, not...
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Ask Peter Sleeth Anything about Missing Iraq, Afghanistan Field Records...
by Amanda ZamoraOver the last decade, the U.S. military has destroyed or failed to keep millions of field records from Iraq and Afghanistan. The lapse in recordkeeping has left soldiers struggling...
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What We Learned from Free the Files—and How to Make It Better
by Theodoric Meyer Back in August, the Federal Communications Commission forced the country's television stations to put their political advertising files — which reporters had been able to see only...
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Was Petraeus Borked?
by Peter MaassThis story was co-published with The New Yorker and is not subject to our Creative Commons license. In 1987, when Judge Robert Bork was enmeshed in a partisan struggle over his Supreme...
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Education Department Adopts Crucial Reform for Disabled Borrowers
by Sasha ChavkinThis story was co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Education Department enacted a crucial reform on behalf of borrowers who become disabled, issuing new rules...
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Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines?
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Pipeline Safety Tracker
by Lena GroegerEvery year the nation’s oil and natural gas pipelines suffer hundreds of ruptures and spills. We map major pipeline accidents from 1986 to the present.
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What Effect, If Any, Did Voter ID Laws Have on the Election?
by Suevon LeeElaine Schmottlach has been a ballot clerk in the small southeastern New Hampshire town of Nottingham – population, 4,785 – for the last 25 years. Yet when it came time for her to vote on...
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